Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Spotsylvania County is considered to be the ancestral home of the
"Endfield
Wallers". Immigrant founder of this large important branch was Colonel
John Waller.
Tens of thousands of Waller descendants living in the United States can
trace their roots
to this individual.

Waller researcher David Westfall
visited
"Endfield" in October 98. He shares his comments and
observations.Go to David's report

In 1951, Andrew Lewis Riffe authored an article regarding the
"Endfield
Wallers." The story was published in "The Virginia Magazine of
History and
Biography" and has since enjoyed a world-wide readership through the
use of
microfilm. Andrew Riffe is dead and the VMH&B is out-of-business. There
should be a
manner in which questions may be asked and errors corrected. For this reason
the
"Waller Family" web-site is publishing portions of the article.
Link to "THE WALLERS OF
ENDFIELD"

The following is from an article written by Earl B. Robb. Earl lives in
St. Charles,
Missouri but for work on this website, see (see Union Co, KY)

Col. John Waller, the second son of Dr. John Waller and Mary Pomfrett, was
born at
Newport-Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England on 23 Feb., 1673. About 1696,
while yet in his
twenties, Col. John came to Virginia and purchased 1039 acres of land from
Elias Downs,
located in Pamunkey Neck, on the Mattaponi River in what was to become King
William
County, Virginia, in 1701. On this land, he established his plantation home
which he
called "Endfield." Col. John Waller married Dorothy King about
1697 or 1698. He
was made Justice of the Peace in the new county in 1701 and Sheriff in 1702.
He became a
Major of Militia in 1704 and was elected to the House of Burgesses for the
term 1710-1714
and for another term from 1720-1722.

It would appear that Col. John had acquired additional land in the
western part of King
William County, which ended up in the new county of Spotsylvania when the
county was
organized in 1720. In 1722 he became the first Clerk of the new county of
Spotsylvania, an
office that would remain in his family for three generations, as two sons
and two
grandsons served the county. In 1723, Col. John moved his home to
Spotsylvania County,
calling the new plantation "Newport." He was succeeded as County
Clerk in 1742
by his son, Edmund. He was made a vestryman of St. George Parish,
Spotsylvania County, in
1745, and a Trustee of the new City of Fredericksburg in 1747. He died in
1754.

We have a Waller researcher interested in Spotsylvania County. His name
is William R.
Scott and he is a descendant of William Waller, (1714-1760). William Waller
was a son of
Colonel John Waller, the original "Endfield Waller." Bill can be
contacted from
his page linked below.William Scott's Page

R.D. (Rex) Lewis is a descendant of Benjamin Waller Jr., grandson of
Edmund Waller who
was the youngest son of Col. John.
Benjamin Jr. and several of his children moved to Fayette, Co. TN before the
Civil War. Rex's Page

Waller researcher, Roy F. Waller is a descendant of Benjamin Waller
(1716-1786), 5th
child of Colonel John.
Of interest to many will be the TAZEWELL connections found on Roy's
page.

Waller researchers Charles F. Crabtree and Marilyn (Crabtree) Sanderlin
are descendants
of Mary Waller (1698-1781), daughter of Colonel John.
Brother and sister, Marilyn and Charles share a Home Page linked below.
Marilyn's
expertise is in genealogy, Charles with computers. The "Waller
Family" website
is fortunate to have this duo.Crabtree Home Page

Listed below are "Waller" marriages recorded in Spotsylvania
County. If you
know of a documented marriage that should be on this list, please Email Ali.